Sonny & Cher: Live
John Mendelsohn, Rolling Stone, 3 February 1972
I'M SURE I'LL never understand why it's become so fashionable to belittle Sonny & Cher, to blame everything from the dissolution of the Beatles to the scarcity of high-quality dope on the duo's out-growing its hippie image.
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